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Despite Web rumors to the contrary, Ciara was naked -- not airbrushed to appear that way -- during her photo shoot for the October cover of Vibe, the mag's editor says. Editor in Chief Danyel Smith told a New York radio station Friday that Vibe has not been sued -- as had been rumored -- and that the shoot was the singer's idea. "It's just dramatic," Smith said on KISS-FM, according to mtv.com excerpts. Almost any photo you see on the cover of Vibe or any magazine is airbrushed [to some degree]

Hearing Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard say she posed nude because she wants to celebrate the female athlete's body is like hearing statuesque ESPN broadcaster Erin Andrews say the male athletes she covers think of her as a little sister. The two women are either lying or amazingly naive. What you hear from many of the female athletes who have posed in the buff is they want to show younger girls that underweight fashion models are not a healthy definition of beauty. That's great.

'Office' gossip If you didn't see Thursday night's episode of 'The Office,' you missed a whopper of a plot twist. If you TiVo'd the show and don't want to know what it is, stop reading now. Ready? Jim and Pam are ... headed down the aisle. Well, maybe not quite yet. But Jim teased Pam he was going to ask her to marry him -- and later revealed a ring to the camera. So could there be a proposal before the season ends in May? According to eonline.com, security has been so tight around the season finale that cast members can't reveal the name of the episode, or even if they're in it!

Remember back in the day, when nude photos of a celebrity could ruin a Hollywood career? Well, things have changed. Today's female stars have proved they can survive the revelation of embarrassing photos from their past. In fact, some have proved the entire experience to be a career booster. "The Hills" star Audrina Patridge hit a bump in the road last week when risque topless (and bottom-less) photos found their way online. The 22-year-old reality TV star explained in a MySpace message that they were "taken when I was just out of high school and beginning to model."

Manager Ozzie Guillen backed up his claim to revert to his outspoken ways, especially after suffering through a 90-loss season in 2007. "But if we win this year, I will be cocky," Guillen said Saturday. "I was taking things low-key, and this is my job. But if we win this year, I might run naked down Michigan Avenue like people expect me to do. "I suffered a lot last year. My family says that when I win, 'Take advantage, because when you lose, you are going to take the blame.

This has been a good month for fans of matter-of-fact film nudity. If next year's MTV Movie Awards have a category for fiercest naked fighter, Viggo Mortensen will be the runaway winner for his vicious steam-bath death battle with two thugs in David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises." Meanwhile, Robert Benton's ensemble drama "Feast of Love," which opens Friday, boasts a European-style attitude about its nudity: If characters would be naked in real life, they're naked on screen.